Definition of fleshy

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Fleshy (superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants..

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Lip :: Lip (n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself..
Apple :: Apple (n.) The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
Carnous :: Carnous (a.) Of or pertaining to flesh; fleshy.
Pepo :: Pepo (n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd..
Fatten :: Fatten (v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Anatifa :: Anatifa (n.) An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia..
Mango :: Mango (n.) The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market..
Spicula :: Spicula (n.) A pointed fleshy appendage.
Fleshy :: Fleshy (superl.) Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants..
Carnosity :: Carnosity (n.) A fleshy excrescence; esp. a small excrescence or fungous growth.
Chap :: Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings..
Sorosis :: Sorosis (n.) A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc., as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple..
Zoanthus :: Zoanthus (n.) A genus of Actinaria, including numerous species, found mostly in tropical seas. The zooids or polyps resemble small, elongated actinias united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored..
Fleshy :: Fleshy (superl.) Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross..
Chaps :: Chaps (n. pl.) The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap..
Carnosity :: Carnosity (n.) Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering.
Pectin :: Pectin (n.) One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling..
Taro :: Taro (n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries..
Digastric :: Digastric (a.) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw..
Rand :: Rand (n.) A long, fleshy piece, as of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak..
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